What Are We Doing?

The following post will be upsetting.

We should be upset.

Two hundred and fifteen Indigenous children were found buried on the site of a former residential school near Kamloops, British Columbia.

We should be upset.

But what are we going to do?

Are we going to know and promote the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s 94 Calls to Action?

Are we going to sign up to write letters with other concerned citizens?

Are we going to hold our governments to account?

Are we going to read the truth in fiction and non-fiction from Indigenous authors?

Are we going to follow Indigenous journalists and activists, so our feeds don’t let us forget?

Are we going to enrol in this free, on-line Indigenous History course?

Are we going to insist that school curriculums at all levels address this fundamental truth in Canadian nation-building?

Are we going to listen and bear witness?

Are we going to hold our governments to account?

Are we going to donate to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society?

Are we going to donate to the First Nations Child & Family Caring Society?

Are we going to hold our governments to account?

No, really though.

Are we?